How to rebuild the jabber database of a Red Hat Satellite or Red Hat Proxy (version 5 only)

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Issue

How to rebuild the jabber database of a Red Hat Satellite 5 or Red Hat Proxy 5

  • Large Jabber Database Fills /var - Red Hat Satellite Proxy
  • Clients are unable to register to Satellite through proxy, or do any yum or rhn related commands. jabberd DB on proxy server filled /var to 100%.

Errors in /var/log/messages:

"db: couldn't open db for realm '': Cannot allocate memory"
"db: couldn't open db for realm '': Too many open files"

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 5
  • Red Hat Proxy 5

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